Trusting the Military
I do not trust our President. If you do, you probably will not agree with this next statement: I don’t trust our Military either. Listening to General George Casey on Meet the Press (transcript), it might as well have been the President answer Tim Russert’s questions. Nearly everything that our government has done with regards to Iraq since Bush took office has been a mistake (first two weeks of the war were stellar militarily). If our President cannot say that he made a mistake, I do not trust him to make fewer mistakes going forward. If our Military commanders cannot say that they made mistakes, I do not trust them to make fewer mistakes going forward.
Senator Murtha is right, if the people calling the shots cannot admit their mistakes, fire them and move on. Unfortunately half of the country did not believe in 2004 that we should fire the President and they missed their chance.